Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] this [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief Superintendent Large had been polite but made it clear that this was a matter for professionals and he had everything sewn up . |
| 2 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 3 | Wanting very much to hear ( because he was sure that this was a lover calling , from the voice ) , the man used the boxing match as an excuse , and he came and stood in the kitchen doorway with a wet plate and the cloth in his hands , and looked at the television . |
| 4 | As European financial controller Ton Canta says : ‘ We felt confident that this was a company that would remain committed to its products well into the future ’ . |
| 5 | I was n't sure if this was a reproach that he deserted her the rest of the year . |
| 6 | Such movement was especially great in the 1960s and 1970s because this was a time of rapid change in industrial technology , calling for new investments , and capitalists preferred to make ‘ drastic adjustments , such as massively replacing living labor by machines and/or disciplining their labor forces ’ ( p. 129 ) in areas of low-intensity class struggle . |
| 7 | Bob was n't sure whether this was a compliment or not , but continued regardless . |
| 8 | I put it to you that it is unlikely that such widespread invasive tumour arose from one small marker lesion and the surgeon concerned that this was a staging error initially . |
| 9 | However , it is evident that this was a development of old problems of racism , racial disadvantage and poverty exacerbated by unemployment and particular styles of policing . |
| 10 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 11 | Far worse than this was a decree issued by the British Treasury to the effect that all money paid out was to be at the old pre-invasion rate of 72 lire to the pound ; the rate in 1945 was actually 1760 lire to the pound . |
| 12 | 1990 also had the lowest snow cover ever recorded in the northern hemisphere , although it is unclear whether this was a consequence of the higher temperature , or a factor contributing to it , since the less snow on the ground , the more the planet 's surface heats up . |
| 13 | Molly smiled back , by no means certain if this was a conversation meant to be taken seriously . |
| 14 | ‘ We are all terribly disappointed because this was a game we desperately wanted to win . ’ |
| 15 | Even now no-one seems quite certain whether this was a fact , a half-fact or the product of a fertile imagination . |